I continue to be very impressed with Digital Access Pass software as a membership site script working with WordPress. The IMSuccessLibrary.com runs on DAP, and I’m finding more benefits to the software than I anticipated.

Some people are in love with Wishlist Member for WordPress – a competitive membership script that I have not tested myself yet (but hope to soon).

The reason I chose DAP in the first place are documented in my first comparitive review.

Let me now share a few additional thoughts now that I’ve been using DAP for a few weeks on a live site.

Simple Or Complex – DAP Works As Advertised

First, the IM Success Library is much more complex than most people will need for a membership site. I have 16 courses available, each with 2-16 modules. Plus, I’m including my various coaching programs and options.

DAP is handling it all quite easily.

Smooth Integration With Paypal

Since it integrates smoothly with Paypal, all I have to do is set up a payment button in Paypal, and set up a matching product in DAP, and I’m good to go.

One of the things that I’m loving about this particular feature (Paypal integration) is how I can actually put a buy button on any website I want, or even a link in an email, and when someone buys that product, 1 of 2 things happens:

1) if they already have an account with me, they get their upgrade automatically

2) if they do not have an account with me yet, it’s automatically created from the purchase – no separate registration is needed.

Affiliates Choose Their Preferred Landing Page

Affiliate tracking is also integrated within DAP (unlike Wishlist which relies on you using Clickbank or another 3rd party system). My affiliates are loving the way they can use their affiliate link to promote to any page on my site – including a specific module, blog post, or page.

Protect Content Outside Or Inside WordPress

But perhaps the most under-stated but most helpful feature of DAP to me right now is the ability to protect and deliver my content OUTSIDE of WordPress, too.

This means that you can have PDFs, videos, audios, and even HTML pages you may be using for iframes protected with DAP: members can only access those files and pages if they have the right membership level.

Updating the script was a breeze, too. Ravi just released version 3.3, and it was a “drag and drop” process to update my script. I logged in again to my site, clicked a big button to complete the upgrade, and it was done.

The newest feature that was added that I love is the ability to see all pages and posts of your WordPress site in the dashboard of a product – making it a lot easier to protect content.

Recommended Improvements

There are a few areas that I’d like to see improved, but these are minor. But the cool thing about DAP is the creator of the script is accessible and continues to take member suggestions and include them in frequent updates.

  1. As a site owner, I would like to be able to change the default landing page for the affiliate links
  2. The links to available content that a member can access are URLs by default, and hard to read. This can be edited by the admin, but I’d like to see the default be the title of the post or page if it’s in WordPress.
  3. These same links are also not in any particular order; except I think it may be in order of content availability. For me though, I do not have time-released content. So these links seem a bit random.
  4. Deleting or editing the content available in a product is done on a 1-at-a-time basis. Since I have over 150 pages available to some members, this is a bit time consuming. It would be cool to be able to change the availability windows, “free” or “paid” status, etc., to multiple pieces of content at the same time.
  5. Tighter integration with Aweber. The built in autoresponder is good, but I’d like to have the signup process result in an Aweber subscription as well.
  6. Integration of the affiliate link code by itself so I can include that link anywhere on the site I want for members; this would also allow for the kind of dynamic affiliate tools page that affiliates are after. This is my biggest request, and Ravi tells me that it’s coming in an upcoming release.

So overall, I’m quite impressed with the infrastructure DAP is giving me for my IM Success Library. And I know it would be great for a much simpler site as well.

If you’re thinking of creating a membership site, and you want the design flexibilities of WordPress (themes, blog integration, etc.), then give Digitial Access Pass a go.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you’re not sure what you’d create a membership site about, I highly recommend you take this course from Paul Evans. I arranged for a $20 discount for you from that special page.

Article Series - WordPress Membership

  1. Creating My First WordPress Membership Site
  2. Initial Blog Settings And A New Theme
  3. Digital Access Pass Works In And Out Of WordPress

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